S0s Quotes & Sayings

Most of us think of government as them. Yet government isn't Them: It's us. — Molly Ivins

Watch your thoughts; they become words. Watch your words; they become actions. Watch your actions; they become habit. Watch your habits; they become character. Watch your character; it becomes your destiny. — Lao-Tzu

Trying to stop suiciders
which we're doing a pretty good job of on occasion
is difficult to do. And what the Iraqis are going to have to eventually do is convince those who are conducting suiciders who are not inspired by Al Qaeda, for example, to realize there's a peaceful tomorrow. — George W. Bush

That is what we say when we do not wish to play the weakling, we say Fine, even though we may be dying, and this is commonly known as taking one's courage in both hands — Jose Saramago

Writing is a combination of intangible creative fantasy and appallingly hard work. — Anthony Powell

I don't usually read reviews. I usually read the interviews, just because I figure it's a good way to try to do them better if I ever have to do them again. — Will Oldham

In some ways, I was a little bit surprised [by how dominant we were] but then I look at the players in our changing room and it doesn't surprise me because we've got quality in there. If we click and play well like we did in the first half, we can open up any team. — Rio Ferdinand

Dialectical thought is related to vulgar thinking in the same way that a motion picture is related to a still photograph. The motion picture does not outlaw the still photograph but combines a series of them according to the laws of motion. — Leon Trotsky

It reminded me of how children always thought too big; how the world tackled and chiseled them to keep them safe. — Lorrie Moore

Lying on top of a building, the clouds looked no nearer than when I was lying on the street. — Liam Gillick

There are very few moments in a man's existence when he experiences so much ludicrous distress, or meets with so little charitable commiseration, as when he is in pursuit of his own hat. — Charles Dickens

Without credible communication, and a lot of it, the hearts and minds of others are never captured. — John P. Kotter

In this dream, I wasn't a coyote shapeshifter trying to hold a werewolf, I was Coyote's almost daughter, and I had all the strength of the world in my arms. — Patricia Briggs